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officials say the collection is lawful. around the country today, fast food rest word -- workers will walk off the job as part of the continued push to raise minimum wage and secure the rights to unionize. lawmakers
officials say the collection is lawful. around the country today, fast food rest word -- workers will walk off the job as part of the continued push to raise minimum wage and secure the rights to unionize. lawmakers
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we pass laws. we implement them and we will in any way that we understand -- that is the mechanism of legislation is all about. that means listening to the feedback of those most affected and working together to ensure small firms secure quality, affordable health care. today we will do just that by hearing from witnesses about a complicated issue. the health care law includes an employer mandate that requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance. its goal is to discourage employee years from dropping coverage and leaving employees on their own to find insurance. while the enforcement of this rule has been delayed until 2015, many small employers must begin now. this hearing is focused on a particular area of the law that many small firms may not be familiar with, the business aggregation rules. traditionally this rule has been used to treat single businesses as an employer for the reasons reasons -- this is not new. we have used them. this is on the books wh
we pass laws. we implement them and we will in any way that we understand -- that is the mechanism of legislation is all about. that means listening to the feedback of those most affected and working together to ensure small firms secure quality, affordable health care. today we will do just that by hearing from witnesses about a complicated issue. the health care law includes an employer mandate that requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance. its...
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these laws don't reflect a truly dynamic marketplace we have today. what does that mean for retransmission consent in the 21st century, which was the topic i was asked to speak at least partially on today? what we are really asking is how do you ensure viewers are able to access the broadcast programming they want, but at the same time respecting the rights of stations that transmit them over the air, ensuring certainty for the advertisers that support it and networks that create it, and the cable, satellite, and broadband companies that deliver it. that is a mouthful of a question. it reflects the competent value chain created and maintained by a large number of stakeholders. we found, for the most part, this chain does not break. the vast majority of retransmission consent agreements are resolved quietly, calmly, without incident. the same goes for the millions of other commercial contracts the compromise the way "glee" and "the big bang theory" were the shows get from the studio to tv. over the decades, this market has functioned smoothly. think of
these laws don't reflect a truly dynamic marketplace we have today. what does that mean for retransmission consent in the 21st century, which was the topic i was asked to speak at least partially on today? what we are really asking is how do you ensure viewers are able to access the broadcast programming they want, but at the same time respecting the rights of stations that transmit them over the air, ensuring certainty for the advertisers that support it and networks that create it, and the...
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law. in the federalist papers number government, what is itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? it went back to refer to the great security against gradual concentration of the civil powers in the same department consists in giving to those who would minister each department and the constitutional means and .otives to resist encroachment the government was set up to specifically prevent this. , i am seeings here, and not only in this administration, but in need radius of mistreating and several administrations, the executive branch is taking for granted that they have exclusive power over issues that they do not. i'm concerned about that and what we do to prevent that. where does this stop? this is my question. we have seen the president and the past presidents, concerning the war powers act, which, i think, have violated the constitution. in this administration, they detained illegal immigrants. they stopped enforcement of drug laws, i know that because i'm a prosecut
law. in the federalist papers number government, what is itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? it went back to refer to the great security against gradual concentration of the civil powers in the same department consists in giving to those who would minister each department and the constitutional means and .otives to resist encroachment the government was set up to specifically prevent this. , i am seeings here, and not only in this administration, but in need radius of...
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the healthcare law cuts medicare advantage by over $200 million. now i'm a doctor. when i see the people that come to see me or having this many cuts in programs that cover them come intuitively common sense tells you that they would have increased problems finding a doctor and higher premiums and higher copayments, fewer benefits and plan choices. even now with only 20% of the cuts implemented, there are reports of these problems already. i come along with the congressman and 50 other members of congress, have found a letter opposing other cuts to the m.a. program. i urge my colleagues on the committee to make the same commitments to their constituents have come to rely upon medicare advantage and without i would yield. >> will you yield me back the balance? >> i yield my time back to the chairman. >> i yield to mr. shimkus. >> i thank the chairman for yielding. look, medicare advantage has been around since what? the late '80s? it was medicare plus choice, then it was medicare advantage. but the word advantage means exactly what it says, it's an advantage. it's ki
the healthcare law cuts medicare advantage by over $200 million. now i'm a doctor. when i see the people that come to see me or having this many cuts in programs that cover them come intuitively common sense tells you that they would have increased problems finding a doctor and higher premiums and higher copayments, fewer benefits and plan choices. even now with only 20% of the cuts implemented, there are reports of these problems already. i come along with the congressman and 50 other members...
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law. our job is to prevent the bad people without hurting the good people. we will have different views on gun control as to where that draw that line, but it seems to me on this issue there should be no dispute whatsoever. this is, as our senator from florida outlined, new technology that for the first time will allow guns to be made that function without metal. that presents a serious danger. some might say a mortal danger to our safety. because if you can pass a gun through a metal detector whose very purpose is to stop guns from getting noodle cat areas -- into delicate areas -- airports, sports stadiums, courts, schools -- you can create real havoc. to allow plastic guns that can fire one bullet, two bullets, three bullets, four bullets into these places creates real danger for our citizenry. and there were some wise people back in 1988, even before these guns could be developed, who passed a law that said we should not allow them to exist. it was a good law. the trouble is, as my col
law. our job is to prevent the bad people without hurting the good people. we will have different views on gun control as to where that draw that line, but it seems to me on this issue there should be no dispute whatsoever. this is, as our senator from florida outlined, new technology that for the first time will allow guns to be made that function without metal. that presents a serious danger. some might say a mortal danger to our safety. because if you can pass a gun through a metal detector...
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my first question is under the law, ferc and the doe have joint authority. it's not clear how that authority if at all is coordinated. madam chair, is there any ad hoc protocol with the department of energy on how you review the permit process and how doe interviews the fact that it's in the national interest to do the exports? >> thank you for the question. it's a very important part of the work and we have 13 substantial applications pendi pending. we primarily work in our own lane which is to review the environment and safety issues in the facilities and they review the actual national interests, national security interests with the export of the commodity so i think our staff communicate so we understand what the mutual statuses are, but we don't actually to my knowledge actually collaborate on the cases. we do our work and they do our work to our knowledge. >> is there any interest at the commission's level with some congressional legislative guidance on how that process should be coordinated if at all? we do the delays in the process although it will w
my first question is under the law, ferc and the doe have joint authority. it's not clear how that authority if at all is coordinated. madam chair, is there any ad hoc protocol with the department of energy on how you review the permit process and how doe interviews the fact that it's in the national interest to do the exports? >> thank you for the question. it's a very important part of the work and we have 13 substantial applications pendi pending. we primarily work in our own lane...
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, the other provisions of the law and outline what steps to comply with the law? >> we have already received a large number of exemption applications for conduits'. they are all in some stage of the process. a couple have been approved and others are close to approval so that should affect immediately. >> give us the idea of 18 and which ones have been approved? >> we will take that as a written question and where they are in the process. also it was october 22nd we held a technical conference on what we can do to speed up process and the two year licensing requirement. comments are outstanding right now. the folks in the hydro section are working on that. a lot of the other agencies contribute to the timing as well. we received fewer applications for the other parts of the law as of yet. 40 megawatt exemption and so forth. >> will you implement a pilot project in 2014? >> yes. >> you talk a little about the workshops, what you learned. do you believe we will be able to get through the legislation in the next two years implementing the legislation? >> satisfy the
, the other provisions of the law and outline what steps to comply with the law? >> we have already received a large number of exemption applications for conduits'. they are all in some stage of the process. a couple have been approved and others are close to approval so that should affect immediately. >> give us the idea of 18 and which ones have been approved? >> we will take that as a written question and where they are in the process. also it was october 22nd we held a...
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it's a tragedy of the law. a bill that was rushed through congress without any serious debate, strictly partisan vote is now directly impacting people's lives and their personal healthcare decisions. >> let me ask would you please explain to the committee the reality for those potentially millions of people, seniors who lose coverage over the next few years, especially when it comes to a reduction in financial security and benefits? >> i think this is a very real possibility and something i'm deeply concerned about as you know. it is one thing to mandate that a medicare advantage plan have benefits and offer that. it's another for it to be in existence so they can take advantage of it. money trumps mandates. they won't have those choices or care. those who made that choice will see their plans taken away from them in violation of the promise. not here but is he made that statement about the $14 billion that was saved out of the medicare advantage program but that $14 billion was not kement northeast medicare. a
it's a tragedy of the law. a bill that was rushed through congress without any serious debate, strictly partisan vote is now directly impacting people's lives and their personal healthcare decisions. >> let me ask would you please explain to the committee the reality for those potentially millions of people, seniors who lose coverage over the next few years, especially when it comes to a reduction in financial security and benefits? >> i think this is a very real possibility and...
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one rule of law. there's no country in the world that has a rule of law that we have. we're challenged because of the magnitude of the number of events around the world today. we are still doing a pretty good job of keeping things at bay. and i think the third and maybe a bit sell fish is our defense capability. i think it's a national strategic advantage. our military, despite about what you hear about the army is facing or the navy or air force. those are true. but we're still the best in the world. we are the most capable. that provides this country enormous advantage. when other countries look at us and the united, you know, we need to remind ourselves to be exactly what is no our dna. to be a little bit humble about our strategic advantage as a world power and global leader. and not be seen as, you know, we're better than you. we have to be seen as a global leader around the world. in fact, i know we are. because of the conversation i have. i say all of that because i think that it is a dialogue. you know, it's not just a dialogue one way. it's a dialogue from dia
one rule of law. there's no country in the world that has a rule of law that we have. we're challenged because of the magnitude of the number of events around the world today. we are still doing a pretty good job of keeping things at bay. and i think the third and maybe a bit sell fish is our defense capability. i think it's a national strategic advantage. our military, despite about what you hear about the army is facing or the navy or air force. those are true. but we're still the best in the...
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that's an error of law. it really depends on the convergence of both an inexperienced corps of new readers who don't have the freedom to exercise their judgment when it's necessary. if you were to sort of compartmentalized in the knowledge, it depends on how you run it. if they are allowed to exercise that qualitative deliberative thought process as we look at these claims in these compartmentalized thinners of excellence, then it would work. i don't think that's necessarily it. just give them the ability to make decisions in exercising good judgment and having rules dictated as a quality of review standard. >> thank you. first of all, i think the asset the fairness is time. if we set up lanes and their pressure to go real fast, it won't matter if they're the most knowledgeable people on the planet. secondly, you are taking the veterans claim away from his local representative. the american legion or others of his organizations representative in boise, idaho, is not going to have access to the file or to you
that's an error of law. it really depends on the convergence of both an inexperienced corps of new readers who don't have the freedom to exercise their judgment when it's necessary. if you were to sort of compartmentalized in the knowledge, it depends on how you run it. if they are allowed to exercise that qualitative deliberative thought process as we look at these claims in these compartmentalized thinners of excellence, then it would work. i don't think that's necessarily it. just give them...
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these are the natural consequences of the law which limits their ability to provide options to beneficiaries. going forward i would emphasize that it's important to preserve this stepping stone to coordinated care, the better practice of medicine and medicare, and that it would be extremely undesirable for congress to repeat the practice of using medicare advantage as a funding source for further expansion of a program initiative. this is a valuable program that has proven on the ground to provide high quality care, individual approaches to medicine and is the popular choice of many of the least of all beneficiaries. further reductions aren't undesirable policies do. i think you and i look forward to answering your questions. >> the chair thanks the gentleman and recognizes mr. baker for a summary of his opening statement. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member pallone, interesting which members of the subcommittee. medicare rights is a national nonprofit weatherization that works to ensure access to affordable care for older adults and people with disabilities and we thank
these are the natural consequences of the law which limits their ability to provide options to beneficiaries. going forward i would emphasize that it's important to preserve this stepping stone to coordinated care, the better practice of medicine and medicare, and that it would be extremely undesirable for congress to repeat the practice of using medicare advantage as a funding source for further expansion of a program initiative. this is a valuable program that has proven on the ground to...
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them to get it or it might be bad drug for them to get what the right dosing might be in there is a law involved in how we respond to medication that is scripted in our genome. right now every baby born in america has a genetic testing done, with a small number of conditions which can be early intervention that ends up being healthier or at least you know what to you protect that child list or how to handle this. that is really only a few dozen conditions and now we know about the genomic basis for literally thousands and thousands of rare diseases and overtime we will learn about these more common diseases as well. indeed, we are very interested in what will the future be like when it becomes straightforward to sequence a baby's genome and have that information available starting when they are infants. and just this year we have launched a new research program and we did this in collaboration with another institute to really develop a research program that would allow us to study exactly what you describe, what that future will look like. sadly we were only able to fund it at about hal
them to get it or it might be bad drug for them to get what the right dosing might be in there is a law involved in how we respond to medication that is scripted in our genome. right now every baby born in america has a genetic testing done, with a small number of conditions which can be early intervention that ends up being healthier or at least you know what to you protect that child list or how to handle this. that is really only a few dozen conditions and now we know about the genomic basis...
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the guy who was hanging out with the author of the arizona law? a guy who was -- you know, really not making any effort to win hispanic -- if you look at the romney campaign and that almost, like i stopped wanting to talk about the romney campaign because after all i had electroshock therapy. i've tried to forget it. [laughter] but it almost seemed to me that they made a calculation that they could get a very low, they could get 30%, 29% of the hispanic vote and still win if they got enough of the base vote for the white vote. that just turned -- so they pretty much ignored the hispanic vote. rule number one to winning votes, is asking for votes. it's making the case. it's persuading people to be with your site. it's showing people that you can relate. you know, mitt romney had a hard time relating to white people. imagine relating to us. you know, and i just, i don't think, i don't think -- i don't agree with your assessment that hispanic voters for obama because they were being given things. i think that is -- first of all, underestimating hispa
the guy who was hanging out with the author of the arizona law? a guy who was -- you know, really not making any effort to win hispanic -- if you look at the romney campaign and that almost, like i stopped wanting to talk about the romney campaign because after all i had electroshock therapy. i've tried to forget it. [laughter] but it almost seemed to me that they made a calculation that they could get a very low, they could get 30%, 29% of the hispanic vote and still win if they got enough of...
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one point is unequal treatment under the law. when i lost my disability insurance, we're limited to like two years whereas some of them as cancer or parkinson's or something like that, he goes on for the rest of their life. we are cut off automatically at two years. i have a good psychiatrist. i have an neuropsychiatrist. i have a urologist. all of these guys. it is not seen that these people work together as an integrated team even though they are working on the same bodily organ, our brain, the most complex organ in our body. guest: thanks for calling. those are both critical points. i wish we had the whole 30 minutes to cover both of them. then the focus on the latter point about the integration of care. you're absolutely right. i mean, one of the problems we have here is that we have disciplined physicians of which are looking at problems from the same organ that come at this with very different training, different language, different treatment approaches. imagine for a moment if we had two fields of medicine on the heart, on
one point is unequal treatment under the law. when i lost my disability insurance, we're limited to like two years whereas some of them as cancer or parkinson's or something like that, he goes on for the rest of their life. we are cut off automatically at two years. i have a good psychiatrist. i have an neuropsychiatrist. i have a urologist. all of these guys. it is not seen that these people work together as an integrated team even though they are working on the same bodily organ, our brain,...
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amend, way versus and the law. we must resist the president deliver a pattern of circumventing the branch in favor of administrative decision-making. we cannot allow the separation of powers enshrined in our constitution to be abandoned in favor of an undue concentration of power in the executive branch. as james madison warned centuries ago in federalist number 47, the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. it is now my pleasure to recognize the ranking member of the judiciary committee, the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers for his opening statement. >> thank you. good morning -- top of the morning to the witnesses and to my colleagues on the house judiciary committee. the president's constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws would be an important issue worthy of a hearing by this committee if there was any evidence that the president has indeed failed to fulfill his duty. but unfortunately, it appears
amend, way versus and the law. we must resist the president deliver a pattern of circumventing the branch in favor of administrative decision-making. we cannot allow the separation of powers enshrined in our constitution to be abandoned in favor of an undue concentration of power in the executive branch. as james madison warned centuries ago in federalist number 47, the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very...